The GOD OF WAR rant

[@jonoth1236]

To that guy who said: "Noone will watch this VOD 6 months from now" at 15:28 , Im here one and a half years later lol

[@DarrienGlasser]

6 months later gang reporting in 🫡

[@lordglobgalab4992]

Reporting July 2024 !

[@TotallyOKaYProductions]

me too!

[@LDD714]

Amen brother

[@Watsuda]

Guys you all missed your time window by a year

[@bearoyay]

your going to be able to put in your resume "ive photoshopped this bald guy about 300 times" sooner than later

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

too real...

[@Psychobum91932]

supremely underrated comment

[@mrMJ3434]

Love tuning into NL's weekly rant about how every game should be more like Isaac

[@bmranr]

and Isaac should be more like older versions of Isaac

[@ribps289]

@@bmranr damn new Isaac versions, they ruined Isaac

[@B2Roland]

AAA games are genuine dogshit

[@retronymph]

he's right though

[@mr.dirtydan3338]

​@@B2Rolanddo you know why?

[@rogueishcharm]

I deeply appreciate him cutting himself off right before reverse engineering different levels of smithing stones while ranting against different levels of smithing stones.

[@ethanbaileylol2283]

this was such a funny bit because he came right to the conclusion the devs did when they went down his thought process

[@AnthonyJSullivan]

one thing NL got 100% right is the npcs pointing out what you are supposed to be looking at /interacting with every 5 seconds when you just started looking at the obstacles 10 seconds ago

[@RozKounelakion]

Yeah that shit was wack. Loved the game as a whole though. Except for that 2-3 hour atreus fetch quest that was not it

[@AnthonyJSullivan]

@@RozKounelakion I loved the whole game too but for some reason it just didnt have the magic that 2018 gow had for me. The sequence of kratos getting the blades of chaos in 2018 was like peak gaming for me. I feel like ragnarok is probably the better game in every department but it didnt capture me the same way

[@RozKounelakion]

@@AnthonyJSullivan yeah I'll admit that the blades of chaos scene was something else that first time around. But after ragnarok's first hour I was hooked on that as well lol

[@AnthonyJSullivan]

@@RozKounelakion ragnarok excelled in way more areas than 2018 did too to be fair. the final act of ragnarok is really good. we straight up go gow 3 mode out here with that assault

[@RozKounelakion]

@@AnthonyJSullivan I really liked the combat as well. It felt really good to just fight NPC's in ragnarok. Some of the complaints I had about GOW 2018 were the enemy variety and the fact that each enemy had like one execution animation and they fixed both of those things, made the combat more enjoyable and satisfying etc. I really think I can count the complaints I have with ragnarok on my fingers and half of them can be attributed to the fact that I played it on a base 2014 ps4 lmao

[@ريّان-ذ4ت]

I can't stop laughing when kate hit him with the "who asked" and then "who cares" lmao

[@TheLibraryofLetourneau]

the true chat's champion

[@codycaldwell5042]

Pretty upsetting to see NL bashing these small games while on his hands and knees for Vampire Survivors….

[@_MartinChess_]

I agree! But, small? Really?

[@deatheater6222]

@@_MartinChess_ its a joke

[@TenaciousDealer]

The "why doesn't he just punch through the door" bit of the rant genuinely reminded me why enjoyed Doom 2016 so much. It really knows what are the fun bits and what is just filler. whenever doom guy looks like he's gonna be stopped by some locked or malfunctioning thing that might need some kind of puzzle aspect to solve he just breaks it or "punches through the door" to get to the next fun bit quicker.

[@Isaax]

Odd comment because I distinctly remember dropping DOOM 2016 because I didn't know how to continue, one time it was because of a key card or some such thing. Maybe I'm just rarted, but it turned me off so badly that I've just never played on beyond that point

[@pm0532]

@@Isaax how lol, the game literally gives you a huge marker on the map and compass to tell you exactly where to go

[@Isaax]

@@pm0532 I don't remember that, it might have been user error. But at the same time, if your game needs a big marker to tell you where to go, well... I don't know man

[@toby8261]

It doesnt need it, bc most people will be able to find their way, but they include it for people like you who still manage to get lost, at which point I'm sorry to say its a skill issue @@Isaax

[@Isaax]

@@toby8261 ok

[@Hermezs]

The thing is... That violence from the oppressor is simply not the same as violence from the oppressed

[@Hermezs]

Wait he's based ???!!! (since nobody wrote it for me)

[@JustinDoesntLookAt]

So tru bestie

[@isdisgudnam]

A wise woman once said

[@lautaroescarlon7501]

@@isdisgudnam 5th grader

[@jacobnussbaum2309]

Your copy pasted comment from a 50-year old essay is not "based". It's naive attempt at fake sophistication.

[@Mulch4321]

Can't believe he finally went on a rant here, despite assuring us over and over that doing so was expressly against his intent

[@wyoaqjuuvn6420]

House of Leaves audiobook is a great bit lmfao

[@ciarancassidy7566]

I went with the Pale Fire audiobook one time kinda blind and then felt like a real jackass when I figured out the conceit of that book

[@IBQ1]

"no ones watching this vod 6 months from now" me, watching the vod 8 months from then...

[@blahthebiste7924]

Me, reading this comment 8 months after it was written...

[@swellmate12]

@@blahthebiste7924 me, reading this comment 5 hours after it was written...

[@shmittywarbermanjensen1756]

Me reading this comment 2 hours later

[@kusi3503]

​@@shmittywarbermanjensen1756 Me reading this comment 2 days after it was written

[@ilikeshiba]

Me reading my comment as I’m writing it

[@titaniawallace4223]

"I can't unlock this door WHY DON'T YOU HAVE HIM JUST FUCKIN PUNCH THROUGH THE DOOR" ngl he is kind of spitting

[@_MartinChess_]

That shit is in every game. In elden ring, someone who rivals the elden lord in strength and power can die to a lowly skeleton

[@controversialgaming1364]

@@_MartinChess_ Yeah but the concept ties that you are a low level nobody , that's the point .

[@CeaerCeaer]

@@_MartinChess_ Okay except most other games aren't trying to convince me that this isn't a game. GOW is trying to convince me that the story I'm seeing is real, once you see shit like "just punch through the door" but games won't let me, then that illusion of it not being a game falls.

[@_MartinChess_]

@@CeaerCeaer it’s in every game where the main character[s] have any type of powers that aren’t natural

[@IceColdDragon87]

@@CeaerCeaer what the fuck is it about beheading a troll that screams realism to you??? or was it when his son turned into a bear to fight odin and thor??? are you fucking stupid??

[@akshaydalvi1534]

People hatin on nl now, will be the first ones to lap up "An in depth critique of God of war Ragnarok" 8 hr long video by John Jacob Paul Gervais Anderson Geller 4months from now

[@doctorhandshake1880]

So true. I can't wait for the mandatory "The Disappointing Truth of God of War Ragnarok." And then in chat people will ask him if he's seen it LOL

[@akshaydalvi1534]

Btw its me, Im people 🤣

[@nononoleavemebe]

None of these video essay andys ever seem to have watched the GOATs of the medium. kzbin.info/www/bejne/f3a1eYCDjcqmnsU

[@davidson6738]

Lmao exactly, and then they will type “yeah I always said the reboot games were annoying and worse than the OGs”

[@MrGetownedLP]

Holyyy based

[@JohnBrownThisIs]

I am watching this VOD more than 6 months later.

[@C2DD]

Slay the spire for best visuals the year cuphead released is a very hot take

[@EasterBunnyMurder]

Shithead you mean?

[@ribps289]

I love slay the spire. Some of the art looks like it was made in ms paint

[@haiperbus]

The art outside of card icons is the weakest part of Spire

[@paijwa]

That's funny, I avoided slay the spire for the longest time because the art is straight up ugly Gameplay too good to pass up though

[@SomeGuy-tr2hi]

I disagree with some of what NL is saying about GoW specifically but buried beneath is I think a genuinely great point. That gaming media outlets put so much value on big budget triple A games that they overshadow indie games that lack the same spectacle but excel in their gameplay, and that there’s this belief that the triple A game that’s ridiculously massive in scale and graphically advanced is seen as the superior gaming experience by default, and that more value is placed on games that try and do everything rather then just doing one thing exceptionally well. I’d say a better example to use as opposed to God of War is Cyberpunk, considering the game awards treated it similarly, including nominating it way too early despite being way less fun to play then many games released that year that weren’t nominated.

[@omniimmortal9950]

I'd agree that cyberpunk was nominated too early, but at least the developers have brought it up to where it should have been then. Like currently, it really is just right.

[@suckapunch]

@@omniimmortal9950 CDPR never got it anywhere near where they advertised to be. The game still feels lifeless and empty. Individual stories and missions are great, but the world is so janky and un-cyberpunk. It feels more like Saints Row than it does cyberpunk. It would have been better if it were on rails and not "open world"

[@lautaroescarlon7501]

What are you talking about triple A games get a ton of shit just like Marvel does in the film industry. We should stop acting like we're misunderstood unique quirky fellas for our love towards indie games and AAA games are too below us all when in reality I can't go through a day online without someone shitting on how formulaic AAA games are. NakeyJakey for example, has videos with millions of views critiquing AAA, and they all agree with him. But god no, our belief can't be popular belief. Come on.

[@Blaurot]

@@lautaroescarlon7501 "this one youtuber made a video thats liked" yeah people critique Marvel and many agree, but look at the actual NUMBERS its the biggest most viewed movie franchise EVER. Many people loved Bladerunner2049, and its close to a cinematic failure when it comes to ticket sales.

[@lautaroescarlon7501]

@@Blaurot Yeah, but the amount of people who think Marvel makes actually outstanding movies is less than those who think they're popcorn flicks. They're popular because it's easy to watch and pass time not because they're genuinely great. Even Marvel fans critique Marvel. The average person doesn't think Marvel Movie 101 is better than Blade Runner, but one is considerably easier to digest than the other.

[@AmnesiacDoe]

love the way he scrambles to reassure everyone that he thinks the god of war story is good before going relentless on elden ring dialogue, lmaoo

[@rose4961]

As someone who watched my financé play Ragnarok and was in no way engaged with the story, the bit about riding around on a dogsled while a head talks to you in a Scottish accent made me laugh so hard, I snorted.

[@RickTrajan]

Imagine listening to this is 2024

[@uiron5755]

I'm watching this clip 6 months later and having a good laugh

[@texaswilliam01]

Oh shit I am in fact watching this 6 months from then

[@Furionic696]

First person to mod Mimir's dialogue on the pc version to just be NL gaming rants can feel free to come back and pay me for the idea, we have Homer Kratos, SURELY this can be done.

[@crazydude9991]

I think he nailed it with the point about maximalist game design. So many games nowadays try and do so many different things that the games become less fun to engage with. This includes a lot of indie games as well unfortunately. I can enjoy the odd game like that, but they are very tiring, and most of the time it's just more fun to play a game that does a couple of things very well. GoW is a prime example of this for me. The story might be good but the gameplay loop gets in the way of truly enjoying the story, and then all the other added mechanics like the rpg systems get in the way of just enjoying the combat. Plus it feels like they restricted the enjoyment of the game for the sake of immersion or world building.

[@resinfruit]

i also think that a ton of design elements in GoW are at odds. the way characters almost immediately will explain what to look at, what it is and where to go makes it seem like they think their target audience is toddlers and then will also have stat descriptions with 2 decimal point percentages expecting anyone to actually focus on them.

[@theresnothinghere1745]

Maximallist can work perfectly well, its just needs to tie together well. Persona games and Yakuza games do this well, there's a lot of side activities in each but they aren't there just to have more activities but because it feeds into a deeper motivation in the games. In persona its all based around interacting with the world and letting the characters develop from it, in Yakuza its about making the city feel more alive with people doing all sorts of thing with their own stories. In both cases those additions are part of the core experience people want. But in God of War its much more questionable, I've never seen anyone who came to god of war for the puzzles or for the loot collection. Those mechanics exist more for the end goal of provding downtime or build variety but the implementation could be changed from loot to skill trees and puzzles to plataforming without really changing the experience as a whole. The developers themselves pretty much showed this is the case with them being so willing to have characters just tell you the puzzle solutions if you take too long, something that they would only do if the puzzles didn't really matter themselves.

[@iconica9516]

i think its because some devs (mainly indie, i think that its just bad game design for the case of AAA games) feel the need to stand out in some way, which is totally fine, but they end up overdoing it and it just ends up being really bad overall COTL had this same problem early on with itw repetitive rougelike and fairly bland city builder, and they just focused and evolved the city building part and it did much better for itself

[@jadedkitty728]

I love how in this rant, there were so many enjoyable tangents, but they all came back to God of War. Egg at his comedy best!

[@markmartiros660]

I kind of want NL to play God of War just so he can throw shade throughout the entire game.

[@HawkOfGP]

It's very easy to make fun of.

[@KevinM491]

@@HawkOfGP one example?

[@HawkOfGP]

@@KevinM491 That the entire series sucks?

[@_MartinChess_]

@@HawkOfGP how?

[@mattcubed9658]

@@_MartinChess_ They won't ever say how cause they don't have any valid points. Hate just to hate sadly

[@Probablynoot]

sounds like NL likes Doom, oh a door? oh a lever? CRUSH the DOOR, BREAK THE LEVER

[@okamisamakun]

I wish they made a Elden Ring auto-battler.

[@Ignas_]

But you die every time.

[@MsLucho1998]

I can't believe they nerfed the 3* Loathsome Dung Eater

[@jimmyredd]

@@chadeava It's called Tokyo Jungle

[@takeback181]

Vod is recommended to me a year later- NL undefeated on his predictions again

[@ZlyLudekPL]

How does this man consistently find a way to say something I agree with in a way I disagree with :D?

[@northernpuffer9222]

6 month believers we won

[@beastysped3270]

Waiting for 2027

[@stuffbuyer]

Im on a playthrough of Ragnarok right now and I think the game is more fun than he is willing to give credit for during the bit, but im not even that far into the game and I'm already sick of how many times you come across the "Press O to cling to this wall, crawl under this small tunnel, shimmy across this chasm, etc. etc." It seems like its in this game 10x more than the first. I saw you flip a whole ass temple before Kratos I know you can literally just hulk-jump that shit. And yes I know that's how they hide loading screens.

[@tyrrell8077]

i just don't see how it's "more fun". walking, tapping X, cutscene, walking, tapping X, cutscene

[@williammitchell6254]

Is the combat the same, shit was garbage.

[@Epic501]

just gimme back the loading screen ffs

[@measlesplease1266]

It's fun for boring people.

[@antviper135]

I'm so glad I didn't buy that shit. It litterally is cut scene, walking simulator, hog riding simulator, canoe simulator, and quick time events that YOU CANNOT FAIL! How do you make QTE that have no sense of urgency or threats. Game is damn near 60% of what I mentioned above. Shit is ridiculous😂

[@altaccout]

I'm disappointed that this is a year old instead of 6 months

[@CrazzyJ-iw5rc]

"I'm not drunk, i just have to like... go pee a little bit." bro that egg is pickled.

[@ZootNaps]

Here I am, watching the vod a year from now, and he was right

[@thedandguy189]

This is absolutely my favorite piece of northernlion content to have ever been made.

[@TheSkeletalBig]

1 year later here I am trying to go to sleep watching this knowing that when I fall to sleep I will have to go back in the playlist to find where I left off.

[@UnknownRayDar]

I am, indeed, watching this 6 months later

[@bamsmashes]

I'm six months in the future and I'm watching this vod

[@Narvre]

Ive listeened to this like 7 times and every time he says "Plant a garden cicero" i fucking die lmao

[@bencourtemanche]

I’m watching this 6 months later lmao

[@jonpaul6948]

To be fair it's a year after this came out, and I have no idea who this guy is, but the rant is funny.

[@kdhlkjhdlk]

Literally watching this VOD 6 months from now

[@lich-king2298]

watching this vod one year later

[@ry3497]

I second this

[@ApolloArrow]

15:15 brother I'm watching this VOD 9 months from then

[@ishtarsdonut4489]

As someone who has actually *played* the new god of war, I really believe that the busywork that NL is alking about was barely present in the game. The side quests were really well written stories for the most part, or otherwise incredibly easy to avoid, and the main story puzzles weren't particularly egregious or time consuming in any way. Maybe I'm wrong, but this feels like NL reinforcing his own bias with an extremely limited sample size to go off of. I never felt like I had to go out of my way to upgrade anything/optimize my skills. There wasn't any currency grinding that I can think of, and XP for leveling skills felt more than plentiful.

[@h.i.mcdunnough9421]

Oh wow, somebody in this insufferable comment section that actually played the game!

[@HiFisch94]

I have to agree, although I only played the new GoW and I'm still at the beginning of Ragnarok due to business with work. Really liked the game although I'm more of a FromSoft or competitive gaming Stan

[@Username-jx2ij]

i am watching this vod 6 months from then

[@MrKangorilla]

NL truly desires smooth brain interface and big brain mechanics

[@pcwildcat]

Simple UI with surprisingly deep mechanics is peak game design.

[@annointedbytalos5673]

I understand big metal doors from magical god civilizations can hold out magical gods. But Kratos should not respect a wood barred fence. Kind of like how he doesn't bother opening wooden chests properly. Also sometimes when you know that you yourself could get past that puzzle by climbing around it. Then we have some immersion breaking going on.

[@Tommy-hq9ww]

I’m watching over a year later…

[@Bottles7]

11 months and im watching the vod

[@gee1678]

NL doing a mimir impression made me LMAO

[@firesaint4569]

@Christopher if you have your know how annoying he is

[@douglasdimmadome3104]

Like comment if U still here in 2027

[@exetone]

The Game Awards is like if a marvel super fan ran the Oscars

[@stevebob240]

That was hilarious, egg was goin' off. As a GoW fan too, he's completely right.

[@LLinkdx]

watching this 6mo from when it came out and being referenced now its great

[@internetanon952]

Don't really watch Northernlion but I get what he means when a lot of AAA games feel like a Ubisoft game. Once you've played them once you've played them all (third person action game with light rpg elements that's open world) and they never really feel that exciting to play because they're always dumbed down.

[@ViewtifulGene]

The Mimir voice is spot-on.

[@estwilde]

Thanks for having the current game being played in the info! 👍I've been watching some clips but had never heard of it. Looks fun.

[@CTOOFBOOGLE]

As someone who played ragnarok through and enjoyed it, the man is dead on with his criticisms. Honestly could drop all the “puzzles” in the game and significantly improve the experience.

[@jay4.166]

6 month squad

[@CalvinChikelue]

Honestly his point that no one could really critique a currency/upgrade system for being too elegant & the general idea that if the same result can be done with fewer steps in terms of elements that aren’t the essential gameplay then why not isn’t bad. It is very immersive for a fantasy world to have multiple materials indeed but when we’re talking about the difference between a game like Minecraft & GoW maybe one can deal with a bit less of that granularity

[@RozKounelakion]

I for one never got the upgrade materials rant when it comes to linear games like god of War because you don't have to stress about farming an enemy that drops the mats you're looking for or something like that. You just play the game and while going through it you will find the enemies that drop the mats you need and at some point you will go to the shop and be like "oh look I can upgrade my shit now". The game is literally made in a way where the materials you need *will* drop when the people that made it deemed it appropriate for them to drop. I can very much understand the same complaint for MMORPGs where you're missing one thing and have no clue what you have to farm to get it though

[@christianj2361]

but if the game is so linear that you just gradually upgrade everything over time instead of farming, why even have the mechanic? Why not just automatically upgrade it or have only one currency instead of a variety if the variety doesn't even matter?

[@GakisStylianos]

20+ minutes, this gon' be good

[@nightvision_887]

How did I wake up in a reality where anyone takes Geoff Keighley's "Game Awards" seriously? I thought we all new that it was just a chance for Geoff to buddy up to developers and rake in some ad money. The awards are literally meaningless.

[@freshlymemed5680]

Its the video game equivalent of Michelin Stars in all honesty.

[@Silas_MN]

thanks for letting me know TGA voting is open so I can go vote for HFW in every category it's nominated in. love that game

[@Sin05269]

Btw, I can totally understand what you mean when you say indie games don't get appreciated enough. Games with simple mechanics, but done well because they know what their focus is. I personally would pick Elden Ring because I can spend a bajillion hours in that and not get bored, but there's an argument to be made for something like Inscryption or Cult of the Lamb. If Inscryption were nominated, then top of my list for sure. Cult of the lamb was fun as well and I got sucked into that for a while, but I can't say it's the best game of the year. It was just a fun way to spend my time for a while when I had nothing else to do. Also Super Auto Pets is extremely fun and I have no clue why.

[@MrMegaboss7]

I think one of the reason people like Elden ring and Froms recent games in general is that they stick to the “do one thing and do it well” formula.

[@PUNCHEDPUNCHEDPUNCHED]

Tbh it's kind of no secret some games get repeatedly spotlighted by companies. Take a look at Horizon; Sony keeps treating it like it's gonna be a cult classic but tbh it feels like an average ubisoft entry type of game.

[@Krondon-SSR]

and now Horizon 1 is getting a second "remaster"

[@chrisdray5325]

I love how he's talking shit on what won VFX in 2017 and that it wasn't STS. That was the year that Hollow Knight came out, and it wasn't even nominated. That's how stacked that year was. Cuphead won, and it beat out Persona 5. Slay the Spire could've been animated in microsoft powerpoint.

[@davidson6738]

Something being animated simply doesn’t mean it’s bad. You can have the most complex graphics as possible, but if the game don’t look good, it don’t matter

[@Kingbobman69]

I do indeed watch this vod 6 months from then

[@theratking6249]

can confirm i am watching this later than 6 months ago from when this was recorded

[@DominickvdHoff]

I hate those random as fuck apples and ingredients! not every game needs crafting

[@Ragnell123]

It’s funny cause a lot of the stuff he’s saying applies to Elden Ring as well, lol. His Mimir impression and the silliness of the puzzles is spot on though.

[@nolanlehman6392]

True lol. Both are fantastic regardless despite some flaws imo

[@akshaydalvi1534]

Like what? Genuine question

[@Ragnell123]

@@akshaydalvi1534 Like, everything about 3rd person action adventure games, lol. To be fair, Elden Ring very much breaks from tradition in the genre, which is probably why he likes it so much.

[@deveneb8409]

Difference is you aren’t forced to sit through crafting, or any of its shortcomings in elden ring. It’s a game about fighting hard bosses and clearing dungeons. It feeds you that on a silver platter. The anything that might be seen as not fun are always optional to the core mechanics of the game

[@akshaydalvi1534]

@@Ragnell123 yeah i get it, its just that difference in player freedom between GOW and ER is like night and day lol. They feel like completely different genres even if they are both 3rdP action games

[@AvinTheBest]

Worth mentioning that I watched this 1 year after posting. Take that chatter!

[@Ty9916]

"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away" - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

[@Random_Fanguy]

Hot damn this is a spicy comment section. Can't we all just admit that none of us really care about the Game Awards anyway? And that it's not really surprising he doesn't like AAA games considering what he normally plays? I personally disagree with him but this is all about taste in video games which is super subjective and nothing to really get heated about.

[@PotionSmeller]

I literally only watch TGA for new game reveals.

[@jipeh]

15:30 yes I am watching this right now

[@aydennuula979]

100% based and I respect him weathering the storm in chat to dissent against the mob.

[@nicholasroberts7838]

"I can't get through this door"

[@Moms_Spaghetti]

watching this 6 months from when it aired

[@Maria_Banks]

The thing that I dislike about the game is that it feels like it was made for game journalists. What I mean by that is the game holds your hand every single step of the way. In combat, the companions tell you what you need to do, if you don’t figure out a puzzle in time, the companions tell you what to do, it’s the exact opposite of say Elden Ring. In ER you go where you want and it’s up to the player to find a way to solve things. In GoWR, 95% of the game is spoon fed to the player.

[@freshlymemed5680]

Legit this. While the story and everything is great, it was definitely game journalist-proofed. And it kind of hurt the game because of it. Inclusiveness ain't bad but it does get tedious.

[@suzermcduzer]

yeah because elden ring was totally hated by game journalists and wasnt incredibly well received

[@BlitzkriegBeard]

I'm watching this VOD 8 months from "now".

[@QastletheKing]

i adored ragnorok through and through but fuck that rant was hilarioussss cant even lie

[@QastletheKing]

@@AtomicSlugg I gotta say, if that’s not a bit.. you totally dug your own grave on that one 🤣

[@tygarner9142]

I love the game too, and can admit he made some good points,🤣😂

[@QastletheKing]

@@tygarner9142 yea the pointless puzzles and immersion breaking traversal are factsss

[@QastletheKing]

@@AtomicSlugg its fair to say you aren't a fan, but to says games shouldn't strive for that experience is quite pretentious. imo once perfected, video games will be a better medium for a narrative than movies. Movies have been falling off for a while, tv shows/streaming have been in the spotlight critically for at least the last 15 years, and thats been slowing down as of late too. i think the perfect game lies in the best of both worlds. if you find distaste in a well executed game solely for the fact that is has a compelling story, that wouldn't make sense. But i'll admid, that doesn't reallllly exist yet.

[@robinmobin]

@@AtomicSlugg Mate what are you talking about

[@TheDool]

How has NL not realized yet that every award show is just an appreciation of the industry for the industry and not for the consumer. Its about creative, economical and technical accomplishments more than "is this game genuinely fun".

[@VidyeoGamerer]

Oh my god im actually watching this 6 months later

[@antilles26]

watching this vod one year from then.

[@Babunki2]

I watched a vod 10 months later. It was all really funny.

[@Beramyr]

I am indeed watching this nearly 2 years later

[@dinoafridi]

Time for my monthly viewing of this goated rant

[@piratepat44]

I'm watching this 12 months from then and I'm laughin. Or at least chucklin

[@greedy_onigiri]

its been a while since I listened in on Sir Egg from the great North, but damn he's still got it 🤣🤣

[@senojnomis]

It’s a rant and it’s to be taken for fun, but honestly, GoW wouldn’t be a good game to watch NL play and he knows that. Not because of the ‘busy work’ (which is in all honestly pretty simple and fluid little puzzles that give just as nice a dopamine sugar rush as winning a round of SAP), but because he doesn’t stream stuff with lots of cutscenes and exposition. He relies on games that are a platform for his improvised Seinfeldian-esque stand up routine. You can’t talk over Kratos having a touching moment with his son effectively, and it’s hard to make fun of because it’s so well written. Emoji casino though, easy to chat over. The irony is that the puzzles in GoW would be his best parts, because he could actually quip over it (also ironic that both the egg and the belt-clipped head’s characters are defined by quipping) And yes, I know he streamed the horror game with the wendigos, but it was so meme-able and cheesily bad, that it made reasonable content (though I think it didn’t suit NL overall and didn’t watch most of it thusly)

[@Eilocke]

He actually did stream God of War, if you're interested to see how it turned out.

[@jimmyredd]

If you think the Supermassive games don't fit his style, I'm sorry to say, you're dead wrong brother. I have a hard time thinking of a better fit. The House of Ashes playthrough is some of his funniest stuff in years.

[@AllWordsAreDust]

Slight disagree on the reason being the game's heavy cutscenes, as my all time favourite NL playthroughs to follow have been the narrative ones (Deadly premonition, literally any David Cage game, even Life is Strange), but it's all about his commentary kinda skewering the game's writing, sometimes more lovingly than others. Though from what I know about the modern GoW games, it doesn't sound like the story/writing is absurd enough for this and it would more be like his Witcher 3 playthrough which yeah, didn't really work, and chat would probably be mad if he made fun of the writing anyway.

[@dreadmoder]

watching this vod almost 2 years later and he was spitting on that prediction im a gow ragnarok glazer and this is hilarious

[@mfMisterC]

"In many ways Forrest Gump is kind of like the god of war of movies" I have never felt a more tangible loss of brain cells

[@Shabadaba1216]

The hype around vampire survivors just confuses me. The game is cool for the first few runs, then you realize how little substance there is to the game. I get that not all games have to be incredibly deep or ambitious, but VS just gets boring after you realize there's barely any player input and you're basically just looking at the funny colors.

[@jimmyredd]

Well, this is coming from a man with 600+ recorded episodes of SAP

[@williammitchell6254]

The people who play it are there for that. They armt seeing anything different that you.

[@SaumitraBose]

@@williammitchell6254 but why am I seeing unironic anger for it not being a goty nominee. Its literally the most mindless game I've seen

[@williammitchell6254]

@@SaumitraBose they don't care that its mindless, the appreciate the gameplay loop.

[@legion999]

What's not to get? It's chewing gum in video game form, it gives you dopamine and it's cheap. So: hype. It doesnt necessarily have that much staying power but I played a lot. But if you only played a few runs, theres more substance to it than you think.

[@lorbbrol9976]

15:23 "Noone's watching this vod 6 months from now." Uh oh.

[@Metallijosh100]

15:23 I'm watching 1 year later let's goooo

[@davidtormanen1838]

This rant reminds me of God of War Ragnarok

[@UnlimitedBladeWork]

"in 6 months nobody's gonna watch this VOD" admittedly it's not a VOD, but close enough, and I'm pogging from the +2 takes

[@n8mo]

Unbelievably based take on GoW’s nomination. Most people who vote for it as Game of the Year won’t even have beaten the game yet

[@1wayroad935]

I mean, do you have to beat Elden Ring to realize that it should be nominated for Game of the Year?

[@n8mo]

@@1wayroad935 I’m strawmanning here, but what if the ending really sucked and when you finally beat the game you were like “shit I wish I voted for something else” A lot people consider the second half of Elden Ring to be way grindier and less fun than the first half, so I feel like you should get at least 3/4 through a game before considering it for GOTY

[@1wayroad935]

@@n8mo That's fair. I also have to admit that all these arguments are pointless since GOTY hasn't meant what it is supposed to for over a decade now.

[@n8mo]

@@1wayroad935 100%

[@XekTOr89]

@@1wayroad935 Ummm yes?

[@Hello-uo8tn]

BURY ME BURY ME

[@justcarterr]

why 30 seconds to mars